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BUTTON PASTENER.

Patented Sept. 11, 1888.

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THEOPHILUS It. HYDE, JR, OF \VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,386, dated September 11, 1888.

Application filed July 2, 1888. SerialNo. 279,731. (Nomodch) To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEorHILUs R. HYDE, Jr., of \Vaterbury,in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new Button-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view of a button, showing the tubular shank in longitudinal section; Fig. 2, a longitudinal central section through the fastener; Fig. 8, a longitudinal central section through the fastener, button, and seat-eyelet as applied to a garment; Fig. 4, the rivet, stem, and head detached; Fig. 5, the collar detached; Fig. 6, the button as set into the seat-eyelet preparatory to applying the fastener; Fig. 7, the same as Fig. 6 with the fastener introduced.

This invention relates to an improvement in fastening buttons to garments, and particularly to that class in which a seat-eyelet is first introduced into the garment, and the button constructed with a tubular shank in diameter larger than the diameter of the seat-eyelet, but the shank reduced at its end so as to pass through the seat-eyelet and so that the re duced portion forms a shoulder on the shank to rest upon one side of the seat-eyelet, while the projecting end of the shank is expanded or upset upon the reverse side of the seat-eyelet, this being the invention shown and de scribed in Letters Patent No. 248,511, dated October 18, 1881, my invention being an improvement upon the invention described in the said patent.

The object of my invention is to produce a simple device by which the tubular shank of the button may be expanded upon the reverse side of the eyelet and at the same time form a head upon the reverse side to rest upon the seat-eyelet,and not only make the engagement of the button with the seat-eyelet firm and strong, but give to it a neat and finished appearance.

A, Fig. 1, represents the body of the button, and B the tubular shank, which is contracted so as to form substantially a shoulder, a, the contracted portion corresponding in external diameter to the internal diameter of the eyelet which is to be introduced into the gal ment, and, as in the patent before refcrret'l to, C, Fig. 3, representing the scat-eyelet secu red in the garment in the usual manner of applying eyelets:

The fastening device consists of a rivet the stem 1) of which should be substantially the internal diameter of the open end or contracted part of the shank of the button. The rivet is constructed with a head, (Z, of disk-like shape. The inner surface of the head runs gradually into the stem, so as to avoid an abrupt shoulder, as seen in Fig. 4. Around the stem and upon the head a collar, 0, Fig. 5, is placed, the external diameter of the collar corresponding substantially to the diameter of the head (I. The internal diameter of the collar is some what greater than the diameter of the stem I), and so as to leave a space, f, between the in ner edge of the collar and the stem, as seen in Fig. 2. The collarcand the head areinclosed by a cap, 9, of metal, the cap being made cup shape, of an internal diameter corresponding to the external diameter of the collar and head (I, and so that the sides or flange of the cap may be closed over the outer edges of the collar and head, as seen in Fig. 2, and so as to Sc secure the collar and head together as one article. This closing of the cap upon the parts is a common practice in the manufacture ofbuttons, and, as in the manufacture of buttons, the cap may be covered with fabric or other suitable material, closed with the cap over the head and collar. This covering ofthe caprwith such material does not require illustration, as it is a common and well-known expedient.

The eyelet C is first introduced into the fabric and the shank of the button set through the eyelet to bring the shoulder a to a bearing thereon, as seen in Fig. (5. The contracted end of the shank is oflength greater than the depth of the eyelet, so that the open end of the shank protrudes through the eyelet, as seen in Fig.

6. Then the rivet is applied, the stem entering the open end of the shank, as seen in Fig. 7,

and so that the open end of the shank will pass over the stem and into the space f between the stem and inner edge of the collar, as clearly seen in Fig. 7. Now force is applied to compress the shank of the button onto the rivet. The surface of the head adjacent to the rivet causes. the open end of the shank of the button to expand and pass bet-ween the head (I and the collar 6, as seen in Fig. 3, and until the button is brought to a firm bearing upon one side of the eyelet, while the fastener comes to an equally firm bearing on the reverse side. This gives an extended and strong bearing of the fastener upon the eyelet, and at the same time gives a neat and finished appearance to the reverse surface.

The fastener will be constructed as an article of manufacture ready for application to a tubular-shank button.

From the foregoing it will be understood that I claim nothing shown or described in said Patent No. 248,511.

I am aware that a fastening device composed of two disks with an opening through the inner disk, into which the tubular shank of a button is forced, and the open end of the shank deflected between the two disks, is a common and well-known button-fastener. I therefore do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming such a button-fastener; but

What I do claim as an improvement on the invention'of said patent is- 1. The combination of a button constructed with a tubular shank, B, contracted to form a shoulder, a, a seat-eyelet, and a fastener consisting of the head d, stem b projecting therefrom, collar 6 around said stem, the opening through the collar beinglarger than the diameter of the stem, and an inclosing'cap, g, all substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A fastener for tubular-shank buttons, consisting of a head, d, a stem, 1), projecting therefrom of adiameter correspondingsubstantially to the internal diameter of the open end of the button-shank, a collar, 6, around said stem of external diameter corresponding to the said head d, its internal-diameter larger than the diameter of said stem, and a cap, g, closed upon the said collar and head, substantially as and for the purpose described.

THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR.

Witnesses:

JAMES H. PILLING, JOHN E. EARLE. 

